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The Question is: Do I have a problem with INDEXF.SYS? DUMP/HEADER/BLOCK=COUNT:0 $1$DIA1200:[000000]INDEXF.SYS says that end of file is at 4840, but allocated to 64928. The "Map area words in use" is 152. I am worried because I have read elsewhere that the limit is 154. Some other facts: This is a 3rd party RAID device. The SHOW DEV/FULL shows Total Blocks 14,356,818 and Maximum files allowed as 422,259. Current free blocks is 5,628,368. But for all that, there are not very many files on the disk. A DIR/GRAND/SIZE=ALL $1$DIA1200:[000000...]*.* says that there are only 128 files using 8,666,822 blocks and allocated 8,728,464. Why do 128 files need 152 Map area words? The Answer is : > says that end of file is at 4840, but allocated to 64928. > The "Map area words in use" is 152. I am worried because You may have had a problem, where indexf.sys could not extent any more and no further files could be created. There is no acute problem, but without defragging the disk will not be able to hold more than 64K files. If that'll be enough, then do not worry. If it is not enough consider rolling, re-init with appropirate /header and rll back in; or use a defrag tool. > Some other facts: This is a 3rd party RAID device. The > SHOW DEV/FULL shows Total Blocks 14,356,818 and Maximum fwiw, The file structure is totaly independend of the underlying disk. Only the number of available blocks matter to it. > Why do 128 files need 152 Map area words? They don't. (unless they are wildly fragmennted and have thousands of extension headers. Unlikely). This volume has been places. For grins, With high-water-markign switched off, DUMP a few blocks from INDEXF.SYS well beyonf the EOF. You are likely to recognize file names from files that once were in there. hth, Hein.
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